and June last year or the year before & he tells me we can go that way with horses without trouble. Keep on the east bank of the Toclat - on the high ground, & go straight - or nearly so toward the great mountain. Mail: A miner by the name of Laughery came in tonight with my mail from Circle - 3 letters from Debbie - I am now very sorry that I did not have my way last fall and resign & stay at home with her. From what she says and the tone of her letters I am afraid of the result of her illness. Recd. salary for Dec. & Jany. also expense account for quarter ending Dec. 31st Little official mail and nothing new from Washington. Nothing from Genl. Funston about horses to McKinley. -24th- Old Koonah, the Tanana shaman, again visited me, with "Ellen" as his